Welcome Session – Microsoft Research India Academic Summit 2026

Series: Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026

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  Session: Compute & Trust (Systems)

  June 10, 2026

  • Ashish Panwar,
  • Aditya Desai,
  • Abhilash Jindal

  , et. al.
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  Plenary Talk 4: Aging Brain Research: Challenges and Opportunities

  June 10, 2026

  • KVS Hari,
  • Srinivasan Iyengar
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  Multimodal & Embodied Intelligence (Pt 1), Panel on Multimodal AI: Progress, Pitfalls, Possibilities

  June 10, 2026

  • Madhava Krishna,
  • Sriram Ganapathy,
  • Somak Aditya

  , et. al.
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  Session on Compute & Trust (Security)

  June 10, 2026

  • Krishna Pillutla,
  • Danish Pruthi
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  Plenary Talk 3​: Challenges and research opportunities for global hyperscale services

  June 10, 2026

  • Jim Kleewein,
  • Srinivasan Iyengar
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  Session on Reasoning

  June 9, 2026

  • Hongxiang Fan,
  • Nagarajan Natarajan
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  Plenary Talk 2: Reimagining Education and Skilling for the Age of AI: Challenges & Opportunities

  June 9, 2026

  • Manohar Swaminathan
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  Session on Retrieval

  June 9, 2026

  • Lokesh Nagalapatti,
  • Soumen Chakrabarti
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  Plenary Talk 1: Navigating the AI Horizon: Promises, Perils, and the Power of Collaboration

  June 9, 2026

  • Ece Kamar,
  • Srinivasan Iyengar
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  Welcome Session - Microsoft Research India Academic Summit 2026

  June 9, 2026

  • Venkat Padmanabhan,
  • Srinivasan Iyengar